Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-07-06
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA.
The Career, Accomplishments and Virtues
of TheodwinkIe Brown, ESQ.


Mr.. Theodwinkle Brown, Esq, is one
of the earliest settlers in Wumpville-i
if he ever takes notion to settle at
all. He was born in 1929 and log
cabin, and his earliest years were the
first which his childhood could claim.
He early began to attend no school and
laid the strong foundation of no educa-
ton, though boy living next door to
him went to college. When the war
broke out with Mexico the patriotic
blood in his veins was greatly stirred,
and he set in to learn the carpenter
trade. When the battle of Buena Vista
was foughthe couldn't wait any longer,
so he threw down his tools and offered
his services to q cooper and worked at
that trade. When General Taylor was,
elected President he looked around for
good man for his Secretary of War;
but Brown was overlooked.
He decided to enter the political
field, and, as there was to be Con-
gressional vacancy in his district, he
boldly entered the next political con-
vention and announced his name as a
candidate for street commissioner, and
was elected. By this time he had sue
ceeded in accumulating small proper
ty and large family, but he refrained
from being q bloated aristocrat. In
1858 he did not join any church and be-
come one of the leading deacons in it,
constantly to be seen in his pew, and
gaining the praise of all the brethern
in the church. In the matter of relig-
ion he always remained neutral. His
honesty was never questioned-a great
deal, and he never chased the beggar
away from his door, unless he hap.
pened to be at home a the time.
In the civil war his very soul was
fired in the cause of the Union, and his
friends found it impossible to keep him
at home, while others were fighting at
the 'front.' so he was allowed to 90 with |
the draft. He went, but despairing of
capturing the Confederacy, he allowed
substitute to take his place, the lat !
ter turning out to be one of the bravest
soldiers of the war. Brown always
takes great pride in speaking of the
deeds of this man which he gave to his
country at such great outlay. /
Then he entered the field of litera-
ture and contributed articles, short and
to the point, to his home paper under
the nom de plume of "a Constant Sub
scriber," and succeeded so we'll
that it is almost impossible toI
pick up a country paper in the
land that does not contain
something from his agile pen over His
nom. The world is familiar with it.
He justly feels his Importance over his
rival, "a Constant Reader because,
he maintains, Reader does not sig-|
Nifty that he is subscriber all the time;
he might be a borrower
Some of his critics say he lacks i'm
agination, but beg leave to come toI
his rescue and say that what he writesI
is all the purest imagination to the last
statement. He has an active fancy,
which is manifest in all that he writes.
His articles are not surpassed even byI
belief, and to his credit it can be saidI
that he uses nothing but the purest ink
unless the flies should happen to get
in it,
By a ten-foot pole, Mr.. Brown
measured nearly six feet or less in his
stockings, with holes in the heels or
heels in the holes. He talks and en-
courages temperance, and regrets thatl
he can not practice it, but he takes only
one glass at time. By constantly
writing with his head close to hot
lamp chimney, and his tongue out, hei
has become bald, but he hopes when he|
gets into his second childhood, that heI
will have a second crop of hair. His
step is firm-When he is going down
town in the evening. He does not show
his years-only when he can not posi-
sibly avoid it. Mr.. Browns line is just
$40 years old, beyond that he had no
ancestors. He is proud of his name,
since it has spread all over the world
and so many people wear it. No mat
ter, he says, where you are, if you ask
any one if he knows Brown you will bel
answered. Certainly, know Brown
well. "-A. W. BelleW, s3a Detroit Free!
Press.
Robert Hartford Hare, who died re-
Gently m Philadelphia, leaving an es-
tate of $3O0,000, concluded his VILE
With this paragraph: ''As it is known
TO my acquaintance that | have been
for the past seven years an assiduous
investigator of spirit communication,
Idesire to declare that [ shall
die with firm faith in our dear Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, the only be-
gotten Son of God, and with unshakenl
faith in His Gospel, more especially
that of st. John. which believe to be
the highest authority of ancient times,
I shall be pleased that my friends, W.
Heyard Drayton and George Blight,
should see to the cremation of my body
at Brooklyn or in that neighborhood.t
on Long Island. IN T. San. ii
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